How Came You By That Handle?

[maxcelcat]

Hey All, it's Friday, I'm bored, so I thought I'd start a pointless thread here.

Simple question:

How did you come by your username?

My story.

Maxcelcat is an extremely obscure character in the original radio series of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. So obscure that he gets mentioned once, and doesn't get a line! Somewhere in this episode. And it turns out I spelled it wrong - should be "maxelcat". I was actually using it as a nickname way before I got online, and weirdly it's proved to be completely unique everywhere I use it. If you see that username somewhere, it's me. Hotmail, gmail, forums, blogging sites, everywhere. I even own www.maxcelcat.com.

(Interesting. Just done a search for the "correct" spelling. Someone else is using that handle in some forums... Impostor :-)

So, why are you called what you are?

(x-posted)

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[xaivaldis.livejournal.com]

Xai, my short for Xiomara, Teutonic for glorious forest, also Scandinavian for female warrior. Valr meaning the dead and dís meaning Goddess in Norse; together meaning . Goddess of the dead or ~ of death. Valdis is the Scandinavian variation and is my Viking battle re-enactment name.

Zandramas - handle I pinched from David Eddings books.
Aphrael - as above.
I picked sshatteredd because at the time I felt broken in Armidale and needed a place to vent. It originally started with only private posts, months later I opened it to include friends. Now I have no need for it.